A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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